Showing posts with label Malcolm McDowell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malcolm McDowell. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Lindsay Anderson's O LUCKY MAN! (1973)

 I'm now become an Alan Price fan girl,
Graham Crowden steals his brief scenes yet again
As our Mick Travers blunders through a world
Still made for white boys. We last saw him when
He made a right mess of his schoolboy days
But seems to not have suffered consequence.
He sees some this time 'round, but somehow stays
A poster boy for priv'lege. Some expense
Was spared in casting, though it's all top notch --
They all get many roles, which adds a bit
To surreality, and does a lot
To make this funnier. The perfect fit,
Though is how Price's band serves in the tale,
And how the ending dance party just wails!

Saturday, March 7, 2020

Lindsay Anderson's IF.... (1969)


Long ere young Alex ever found his droogs
Mick Travis did McDowell enact for us.
Long ere that ultraviolence made the news
This schoolboy kicked up ev'ry kind of fuss!
Chris Menges got some early licks in, too --
A wild Graham Crowden makes appearance, and
I'd wait for God with him, now, wouldn't you?
A charming fencing scene stays well in hand
But soon unruliness takes o'er. I'd like
All Zoomers to take notes on this as their
Own elders once crashed through on that there bike
And revolution claimed as their own share
But chose the yuppie lifestyle. Thatcher, Ron
Should not still set the fashions this far on!



Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017)

Some movies are for looking at, and I'd Say this is one, for ev'ry gorgeous frame Would look great on my wall. All that ...